Preparing Ubuntu 12.04 for Pygame Programming with Python 3.2

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Published on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:29

Written by Oliver Bright

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To use the books "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" & "Making Games with Python & Pygame" by Albert Sweigart you will need Python 3 with the pygame libraries installed.

First open the Terminal application and enter:

sudo apt-get install idle3

After you enter your password and confirm, this will download and install the latest Python 3 and the IDLE Integrated Development Environment packages.

Now to set up pygame type:

sudo apt-get install python3-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev \
 libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg-dev python-numpy subversion libportmidi-dev ffmpeg \
 libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev mercurial
 
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
 
cd pygame
python3 setup.py build
sudo python3 setup.py install

Now everything should be in order.  Open the application IDLE (using Python-3.2) and in the shell enter:

import pygame

If you have a working system it should just go right back to the >>> prompt.